The Fellowship
A Literary Mentorship Program
Students and teachers have been asking me for years to develop a mentorship program--a way for students to be personally mentored and trained by me, to go deeper into their understanding of literature, literary theory, and the imagination.
To that end, I created The Fellowship: A Literary Mentorship Program.
This Fellowship is no system or dry, set curriculum; it is a living, breathing, dynamic relationship---just like the Literary Tradition it seeks to recover.
So much of recovering the Literary Tradition is about being able to cross The Great Divide, as CS Lewis calls it, between the Modern and Pre-Modern worlds--a divide that is largely invisible to us and yet cuts us off from the very roots that we need to survive. Many who seek to recover that Tradition fail because they approach it with fundamentally modern eyes and do not know that they do. They blindly stumble around like the dwarves in The Last Battle convinced that they are seeing all that can be seen--even while the door to the other side lies within their grasp.
What is needed is new eyes to see, not a booklist.
Who is it for?
This intimate Fellowship is for anyone who wants to go deeper in their understanding of how to read and in recovering the lost Intellectual Tradition, as well as learning how to pass along that tradition to others--in your home, in your classroom, in your book club. Wherever you can keep that Tradition alive!
I chose the name Fellowship for several reasons. First, it is an academic term to describe students in the deepest levels of study, but it is also a term which connotes friendship and community, and it is the Medieval name for a group on a quest together.
All of these meanings are appropriate to this endeavor.
Prerequisites
This Fellowship is for students who already have a foundation in my approach to literature and are ready and able to go further up and further in.
Therefore, students must have completed the How to Read Fairy Tales and How to Read Beowulf mini-classes and How to Read Literature year-long class before acceptance into the program.
How does the Fellowship Work?
The next Fellowship starts in September 2026 and runs through July 2028. The first in-person retreat will be July 2027, and the Graduation Retreat will be July 2028.
Angelina Stanford leads students deeper into literary theory, an understanding of the imagination, and a Pre-Modern Cosmology through interactive Zoom meetings where we discuss books and scholarly articles, lively personal conversations over Discord and Voxer, and two in-person retreats.
Join Angelina Stanford to get to the very heart of how
Stories Will Save the World!
How Do I Join?
THE 2024-2026 FELLOWSHIP IS CLOSED.
There will be an Informational Meeting via Zoom in February 2026 to discuss the vision for the 2026-2028 Fellowship.
The application process will open in February of 2026
and will include a written essay.
Space is extremely limited.
(We are currently limiting enrollment to members of our Patreon community.
Take a Prerequisite Course
Contact Us
Send any questions or concerns to [email protected]
Mail to:
House of Humane Letters
PO Box 567
Madison, NC 27025